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Seemed like a simple problem. Took over a 9 station W98 peer network and need to get this working ASAP.
New NAS device only accepts TCP/IP. 4 machines can ping other stations by IP address, but not by name, therefore they cannot connect to the network shared drive.
Here's what I've done.
1) Re-installed NIC drivers.
2) Replaced NIC cards.
3) Re-installed W98 on workstations.
4) Upgraded IE to 5.5
5) Blew out IP stack and network and re-installed.
Does anyone have any other thoughts?
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by UncleMarv:
<strong>Seemed like a simple problem. Took over a 9 station W98 peer network and need to get this working ASAP.
New NAS device only accepts TCP/IP. 4 machines can ping other stations by IP address, but not by name, therefore they cannot connect to the network shared drive.
Here's what I've done.
1) Re-installed NIC drivers.
2) Replaced NIC cards.
3) Re-installed W98 on workstations.
4) Upgraded IE to 5.5
5) Blew out IP stack and network and re-installed.
Does anyone have any other thoughts?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There are a few things here you need to take into account. Netbuis does not use TCP/IP. I can connect to remote computers on a workgroup without TCP/IP installed. To ping by a name, you need DNS enteries.
Makes sure all computers are on the same "workgroup". Make sure all computers have file/printer sharing enabled. When looking for computers try doing a computer search rather then looking in network neighbourhood.
The fact that your running a work group, means you have no master browser (usualy located on a server) that means that each individual computer is responsible for building a database of local PC's. It's not very accurate, try the search or type \\computername\sharename in the explorer window.
To be able to ping by name, you could also make some entries in the host file. Just associate a name with an IP address. The file is %Windows%\Host.sam. You have to rename it to "Host." and inside the file you will find examples of what to do. Hope this helps
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by CJK:
<strong>To be able to ping by name, you could also make some entries in the host file. Just associate a name with an IP address. The file is %Windows%\Host.sam. You have to rename it to "Host." and inside the file you will find examples of what to do. Hope this helps</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">]
Thanks for the ideas, however, I've already verified the things that you mentioned. I've tried with DNS on and off. I've used a few different DNS entries. I've verified the workgroup, looked for computers, disabled some of the master browsers in the network. I've added a hosts file (in some cases, this made it worse). I've done everything I can think of except wipe the drive and start over.
I've actually had this issue before and usually one of these things, or a combination, has solved the problem. Just running out of ideas and would rather not wipe the drive and reload programs.
It just seems odd that this doesn't work.